Artificial Intelligence

Baseten is an AI inference company that promises to handle inference quickly while controlling costs by routing requests to the best-for-task model, especially to competent, less-expensive open source alternatives.

Smartbird aims to be an AI infrastructure provider, latching on to the seemingly bottomless demand for compute to train and run deep learning models. The ideal Smartbird customers need direct control over the servers running their models — typically for political or business-model reasons — and value data sovereignty over the scalability of the public cloud.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. is a Bitcoin miner with operations in the United States. The company is using excess capital to become the world's leading Ethereum treasury company, with an innovative digital asset strategy for institutional investors and public market participants. Guided by the "alchemy of 5%" philosophy, the Company is committed to using ETH as its primary treasury reserve asset, leveraging native protocol-level activities, including staking and decentralized finance mechanisms. Bitmine (NYSE: BMNR) is a Bitcoin miner with operations in the USA. The company uses its excess capital to become the world's leading Ethereum treasury company and implement an innovative digital asset strategy for institutional investors and public market participants.

Orbital is a new firm that emerged from a16z’s startup accelerator program Speedrun. The company aims to build space data centers for AI inference, betting on SpaceX’s Starship rocket for deployment. It plans a demo flight with an Nvidia Blackwell chip and hopes to launch its first data-processing spacecraft in 2028, eventually deploying 10,000 satellites for distributed computing power.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud provider that offers cloud data storage services and develops its own AI CPU chips, such as Graviton. The company aims to provide better price-performance chips than competitors and is securing multibillion-dollar deals for its AI compute offerings.

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rater8, the healthcare industry's leader in reputation management, helps medical practices establish pervasive online visibility. The rater8 Visibility Engine (raVE) effortlessly gathers authentic reviews and real-time feedback from verified patients, all with the support of award-winning customer service. Based in the United States, rater8 is a rapidly growing healthtech innovator serving 25,000+ providers at practices and hospitals of all sizes and specialties.

Somos, Inc. is a global provider of telecom registry management and data solutions. It serves as the trusted administrator for numbering plans and databases in North America, and offers intelligence services to help enterprises protect brands, verify identity, and optimize communications.

SoftBank Group plans to spend up to €75 billion to expand data center capacity in France. The goal is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.

AWS provides cloud computing services. The company partners with other companies and also competes with them. AWS provides cloud computing services and competes with other cloud providers. It partners with other companies and offers AI model-routing services to its customers. AWS is a cloud computing platform that offers a variety of services, including computing power, storage, and databases.

General Compute is a new inference neocloud company that rents out AI processing power, specializing in the phase when models are running and responding to users rather than being trained. It claims to be the fastest at running MiniMax 2.7, a powerful open-source LLM.